Amazing analysis of why Star Wars III is a failure

Red Letter Media
110 minutes of enthusiastic Lucas-shredding and unfortunate jokes

Harmonica cat abuse experiment #1

Upper Darby couple totally crash midnight Mass

Couple accused of unholy acts at midnight Mass - delcotimes.com
Now THIS is the way you destroy Christmas.

Wonkette provides more than mere snark over the stupid death panel issue

Sarah Palin Is the Only Real Death Panel
Yo mama's a death panel. Srsly, it's a damn good essay about end-of-life issues.

Snow erased most of Upper Darby overnight

I am planning to learn a song on the harmonica for that old-timey effect.  It's all fun and games until the neighbors start eating each other.

The 10 Best Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com

The 10 Best Books of 2010 - NYTimes.com
Of course, Franzen is #1

A review of a book that purports to define the modern hipster.

The meaning of the modern hipster - Nonfiction - Salon.com
I am ironically enthused that somebody got this book deal.

Bush memoir is postmodern literary masterpiece

LRB · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I said
Damn right!

Bed bugs done posh

LRB · Hugh Pennington · Bug-Affairs
If you didn't hate them already, this sentence might convince you: Males attempt to mate with any moving object the size of a fed female, including juvenile bugs and males who have sucked blood. I know we are all creatures of God, but some just don't deserve to exist.

How to help a font-abusing friend

Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you!

Intense analysis of Afghanistan from NYRB

The Way Out of Afghanistan by Ahmed Rashid | The New York Review of Books

The college kids aren't fleeing Philly, after all

philebrity.com » Blog Archive » Nearly 50% Of College Graduates Are Now Staying In Philly.

The future of journalism

LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay

The London Review of Books explains it all.

Murakami is writing some trippy stuff, as usual

Fiction - Reality A and Reality B - NYTimes.com